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What fascists are ruining OSS?

Assuming it works as advertised, I would use this one, in part because it’s not a bloated Electron app like Heroic. (This one is written in Python, and presumably not so wasteful of system resources.)

I wish this was given a less provocative title. People who read the whole post will find that it’s not all shouting, and Linus’ stance seems pretty even-keeled.

I read it as needing a Microsoft account, and having to accept Microsft’s terms and conditions, in order to contribute to an unrelated (and probably open-source) project. That’s a valid complaint.

One of the appealing things about the Steam Deck is its repairability. Valve even made the analog sticks modular, published a teardown video, and partnered with iFixit to make replacement parts available, IIRC.

It would be hard to convince me that a device that doesn’t beat the Deck in this area is “today’s best”. It’s important.

ISO 8601 date format. Not because it’s from a standards body, but because it’s simple, sensible, clearly defined, easy to recognize, and very effective.

Date field placement in any order other than most-significant-digits-first is not only counterintuitive, but needlessly complicated to work with. Omitting critical information like the century is ambiguous and confusing.

We don’t live in isolated villages any more. Mixing and matching those problems by accepting all the world’s various regional and personal date styles, especially with no reliable indication of which ones apply in any given case, leads to the hodgepodge of error-prone date madness that we have today.

The 2024-09-02 format should be taught in schools and required in official documents. Let the antiquated date styles fall into disuse outside of art and personal correspondence, like cursive writing.

If I am incorrect about downvotes being inconsequential account-wide, say so and it might be possible to work out a different system.

Wouldn’t “upvote if you have never heard of it” accomplish the same thing?

I guess it would depend on people reading and following the instructions, instead of just upvoting games they like. Maybe that’s a bit much to ask. :P

Libcurl is at the foundation of almost all networking.

That’s not remotely true, but it is nevertheless outstanding work and very much deserving of recognition and support.